Bag-holder.



E. M. TUCKER.

BAG HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 10, 1915.

1,167,604. Patented Jan. 11, 1916.

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E. M. TUCKER.

BAG HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY10,1915.

1,16?,6M. Patented Jan.11, 1916.

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EDWARD M. TUCKER, OF OAKESDALE, WASHINGTON.

BAG-HOLDER.

Application filed May 10, 1915.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that l, EDWARD M. TUCKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakesdale, in the county of Vvhitman and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bag holding devices and. has to do more particularly with devices for holding bags of the larger type such as the fabric bags which are used for bagging grain.

It is one of the objects of my invention to provide a device which will not only support the bag with the open end held spread for receiving the contents, but also to provide such a device whereby the same may be jigged up and down so as effectively to fill the lower corners.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device which is pivotally supported, when in one adjustment and which is fixedly supported when in another adjustment, the device being provided with means for effectively grasping and holding the open end of the bag in a spread position irrespective as to whether or not the device is fixedly supported or in a position to be jigged about the axis of its pivotal suport. p Other features and objects of the invention will be more fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings.

:In the drawings :-Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of a bag holding device embodying one form of my invention. Fig. 21s a view in side elevation of the bag holding structure showing the same in the position which it would assume if a bag were about to be attached thereto, Fig. 3 is a plan view of the holding structure with the parts in the position shown in Fig. 2, Fig. 4L is a view in side elevation with the holding structure adjusted to be tilted about its pivotal axis and illustrating the parts adjusted to support a bag thereon, Fig. 5 is a viewof a portion of a supporting frame or jack, Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail View of a latch member.

Like characters of reference designate similar parts throughout the different figures of the drawings.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 11, 1&1?

Serial No. 27,083.

A filling spout is designated at 1 and the filling ends or terminals are forked, as indicated at 2, for the purpose of simultaneously discharging into two bags, the latter being indicated at 3. A strap a is secured to the spout l, as at 5, and the ends of the strap are secured at 6 to asupporting bar 7, the latter extending behind the forked portions 2, of the spout 1. Hanger straps 8 depend from the supporting bar 7 to form the pivotal support for the bag holding device, as will later appear. Jiggefi or detachable supporting means is provided for the bag holding device and the same comprises jigger members 9 which are fixed to the forked ends 2, as indicated at 10. The fixed jigger members are provided with offset central portions 11 terminating in ends 12 provided with slots 13. The end l lof each slot functions as a supporting shoulder.

The foregoing parts may be broadly designated as the spout structure.

Because of the weight imposed by the filled bags which are suspended from the spout structure, I provide a frame or jack support for the spout structure which is herein illustrated as of the following construction: Said frame includes uprights 15, adapted to rest upon the floor or other supporting surface. and extending up for detachable connection with supporting bar 7. The uprights 15 have upper ends 16 which engage the bottom of the bar 7, to support the same, and said uprights 15 are provided with hooks 17 which extend over the bar 7 to hold the frame in supporting relation therewith. The frame is suitably braced by transverse and diagonally disposed members 18 and 19 and may be detached from the bar 7 by being swung backwardly until the shoulders 16 are released from engagement with the bottom of bar 7.

It will be understood that the device of my invention may be incorporated in a sions of a handle bar 21. The bars 20 are spaced apart slightly, near their juncture with handle bar 21, as indicated at 22. Between said space portions is pivoted at 23, a jigger looking or supporting bar 2% which extends up through the slot 13 and which is provided with a pin to prevent the jigger or looking bar 2 1 from being withdrawn downwardly through slot 13 and out of slidable connection with the fixed member 9. A locking lug 26 is formed on said bar 24 for engagement with shoulder 1% to support or look the frame in the position shown in Fig. 2. However, slot 13 is suiliciently elongated to permit bar 21 to be shifted into the position shown in Fig. 4 for up and down movement of the frame to jig the supported bag 3 when the operator manually oscillates handle bar 21. Bar 2i is provided with suitable thumb or finger grips 27 and 28 to facilitate shifting the bar 21 on its pivot 23 without necessitating release of the hand of the operator from handle bar 21.

The forked terminals of extensions or side bars 20, are bored as at 29, for passage therethrough of a pivot rod 30 which is mounted in hangers 8. It will now be seen that the bag holding device has a pivotal mounting, at one end thereof, and a jigger connection at the other end thereof whereby the bag holding device may either be oscillated about its pivot mounting or held supported and in a fixed position.

A suitable brace 31 is provided to stiffen the bag holding frame and in the bars 20 are journaled for free rotative movement,

two rocking hook bars or rods 32 and 33. I

preferably provide the bars 20 with hanger straps 34: and 35 in which the rods 32 and 33 are directly journaled so as to dispose said rods somewhat below the frame bars 20. Bag hooks 36 and 3'7 are mounted on said rods 32 and 33, on one side of the frame, and on the other side, 1 mount hooks 38 and 39. Hooks 38 and 39 are provided with actuating shanks 10 and i1, as will be seen more clearly by reference to Fig. 2. An operating bar 42 is pivoted at 43 on a bearing strap 1 1 which extends upwardly above the side bar 20 to which it is attached so as to dispose the pivot 13 above the axes of rods 32 and An operating link a5 is pivoted at 46 to said operating bar and is pivoted at 17 to the shaft 40 of hook 38. An operating link lS is pivoted at li) to operating bar 42, on that side of pivot 4:3, opposite the pivot 16, and said link as is pivoted to shank 41 at 50. Operating bar 42 is offset at 51 so that its handle end 52 will engage the top of one of the side bars when in the locking position shown in Fig. 4, to arrest movement of the operating bar beyond a locking position. A weighted end 53 is provided for the operating bar to resist movement of the latter from a locking position. It is only necessary to move the operating bar 12 in a clockwise direction to the position shown in Fig. 2, in order to dispose the baghooks in a position for attaching a bag thereto, and I therefore provide a stop 5% on one of the bars 20, to limit movement of bar 12 beyond the position shown in Fig. 2.

The parts are arranged or adjusted in the position shown in Fig. 2 for the purpose of extending the open end of the bag about the bag hooks. Then the operating lever 42 is shifted into the position shown in Fig. a to force the bag hooks outwardly and secure the bag in suspended relation with respect to the holding frame. After the bag has been partially or wholly filled, the operator may grasp the handle bar 21, raising the frame slightly thereby releasing engagement between lug 26 and shoulder 14 so that by depressing the thumb upon projection 27, the bar 2 1- will assume the position shown in Fig. a. While the bag is securely held by the hook, the handle bar 21 may be slightly oscillated up and down about pivot bar or rod 30 to jig the bag sufliciently to cause the contents to completely fill all the lower portions. Thereafter, the carrying frame may be raised and by extending the forefinger of the hand under grip 28, the bar as may be oscillated or swung forwardly to dispose lug 26 in supported relation with shoulder 14;.

By reference to Fig. 1, it will be seen that line we intersects centers 29, 47, 13 and 50, and that center 49, is above the line and center 46 is below the line. It will thus be seen that the dead center or ofi dead center positions of the pivots is such that when the operating lever 42 is in the position shown in Fig. 4:, the stress thereon, together with the weight 53, will tend to hold the lever in the position shown in Fig. 4.

It is believed that the novelty and utility of my invention will be clearly understood from the foregoing description, and while I have herein shown and described one specific form of my invention I do not wish to be limited thereto except for such limitations as the claims may import.

I claim 1. In a bag holding mechanism, a spout structure, bag holding means pivoted on said structure provided with a pivot bar, bag

holding means pivoted on said bar, and devices mounted on said means and on said spout structure for coaction to release said,

holding means or to support the latter, subto support said means in a fixed position on stantially as described. said structure, substantially as described. 10

3. In a bag holding mechanism, a sup- In testimony whereof I affix my signature porting structure including a spout, bag in presence of tWo Witnesses.

holding means pivoted 011 said structure, and EDWVARD M. TUCKER. devices mounted on said means and on said Witnesses:

structure for co-action to release said hold- R. J. NEERGAARD,

ing means for movement about its pivot or THOMAS SAvNEs'r.

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